Fastener device



Na. 753,175.' PATENTBD FEB. 23,1904. W. @.STANGE-.

FASTBNER. DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEIT. 23, k1902.

N0 MODEL.

W ITA/E5 au 6 Mg UNITED STATES Patented February 23, 1904.

PATENT f OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. STANGE, OF YATES CENTER, KANSAS.

FASTENER DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,175, dated'February 23,1904.

Application led September 23,1902. Serial No. 124,598. (No model.)

To all whom, it nfl/ty concern! Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. STANGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Yates Center, in the county of Woodson and State of Kansas, have invented ycertain new and useful Improvements in Fastener Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a frameless lwire gate which can be opened or securely closed from either side, together withy convenient and inexpensive fastener means for locking the gate, closed and exerting a central tension or strain upon the wiresthereof.

To this end my invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of 'parts hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Yandin which similar reference-letters indicate corresponding parts in the several views, Figure l is a perspective view illustrating one form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the fastener device. Fig. 3 is a side view of the fastener device. Fig. et is a perspective view showing a modification of my invention.

engaging the fastener device and a lower loop B2 for receiving the lower end of the bar A3. Fulcrumed adjacent to the upper end of bar A3 by the pivot or bolt c3 is a fastener device comprising a lever C, which preferably includes two members c c, secured together by a rivet or bolt c4 and shaped with their front ends c2 c2 constituting a yoke and their rear ends c c6 forming a convenient handle. The

members c c carry locking projections or lugs tion.

07, which normally lie approximately in contact, but which may be sufficiently sprung apart through the resiliency of the members vc to permit the passage therebetween of the top wire a. The proper relative position of the elements c c may be assured by an interposed washer or other spacing means c5. Pivfastener device is then turned back upon its fulcrum c3 to bring the locking projections c7 underneath the top wire c, the members c being sprung apart by the operator to permit the passage of the top wire 'between the locking projections. It is obvious that the fastener device is thus securely locked in posi- The fulcrums of the lever C and the hook D are so disposed as to eifect a drawing of the bar A3 toward the gate-post A, thereby causing a tension in the wires 0;.

In the modication illustrated in Fig. 4 an equalizing-bar E is pivotally supported at in a bracket e, carried by the gate-post A. The gate-post A may also be provided with guides es for the equalizing-bar. A loop F is secured to the equalizing-bar E adjacent its lower end for receiving the lower end of the bar A3. The fastener device is of similar construction and disposition to that previously described; but the engaging hook D is preferably replaced by a loop G, adapted to engage the upper end of the equaliZing-bar.

The construction illustrated in Fig. Li is designed more particularly for use with wovenwire gates where it is necessary to tension in a'dif'ferent manner the wire of which it is partly constituted, as will be readily understood. e

By the construction described I provide a fastener device for gates and wire fences which effects a central strain or draft upon the wiring, so that there may be no twisting of gate.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a fastener device comprising a lever fulcrumed adjacent its forward end, an engaging device movably supported on said lever in the rear of its fulcrum at a point lying substantially in a common right line extending from the engaging portion of said engaging device through the lever-fulcrum when said lever is disposed in intermediary position, whereby the engaging device will lie above the leverfulcrum when thelever is elevated into releasing position and will lie below such fulcrum when the lever is depressed into securing position, and an engaging device carried at the rear end of said lever for securing it in locking position, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a gate composed of a post and a bar, with interposed gate-wiring, a lever carried by and supported on the bar, and having bifurcated forward and rear ends, the former carrying a bifurcated engaging device encompassing the bar, and the latter provided with means, coperating with the gate-wiring, to effect a locking therewith to maintain the parts in operative position, in use, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a gate composed of a post and a bar, with interposed gate-wiring, a lever carried by and supported on the bar, and having bifurcated forward and rear ends the former carrying a bifurcated engaging device encompassing the bar, and the latter provided with means, coperating with the gate-wiring, to effect a locking therewith to maintain the parts in operative position, and a gate-post carryingmeans with which the engaging device and gate-bar cooperate to effect a locking of the gate, substantially as described.

4. The combination with a gate composed of a post and abar, with interposed gate-wiring, a lever carried by and supported on Athe bar, and having bifurcated forward and rear ends, the former carrying a bifurcated engaging device encompassing the bar, and the latter provided with means, coperating with the gate-wiring, to eiect a locking therewith to maintain the parts in operative position, and a gate-post carrying equalizing means with which the engaging device and gate-bar cooperate to effect a'lockingof the gate, substantially as described.

5. The combination with a gate composed of a post and a bar, with interposed gate-wiring, a lever carried by and supported on the bar, and having bifurcated forward and rear ends, the former carrying a bifurcated engaging device encompassing the bar, and the latter provided with means, coperating with the gate-wiring, to effect a locking therewith to maintain the parts in operative position, in use, and means for regulating the length of the interposed wiring, substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM c. sTANGE.

Witnesses:

EDMUND H. PARREY, EMoRY H. BoGLEY. 

